Association of allergic asthma emergency room visits with the main biological and chemical air pollutants

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 432, Issue , 2012, Pages 288-296

  Makra, László ^a   Matyasovszky, István ^b   Bálint, Beatrix ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZEGED   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c Hospital of Chest Diseases   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Allergenic pollen; Asthma bronchiale; Emergency room (ER) visit; Patient number

Indexed keywords

ADULT FEMALES; AGE GROUPS; AIR POLLUTANTS; ALLERGENIC POLLEN; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ASTHMA BRONCHIALE; CHEMICAL POLLUTANTS; HUNGARY; JOINT EFFECT; MEAN CONCENTRATIONS; MULTIPLE CORRELATION; NONPARAMETRIC REGRESSION TECHNIQUES; PATIENT NUMBER;

AIR POLLUTION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY ROOMS; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

DISEASES;

CARBON MONOXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE; NITROGEN OXIDE; OZONE; POLLEN ANTIGEN; RAGWEED ANTIGEN; SULFUR DIOXIDE;

ASTHMA; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL POLLUTANT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CORRELATION; DATABASE; PARTICULATE MATTER; RESPIRATORY DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; ALLERGIC ASTHMA; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNGARY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLEN ALLERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAGWEED POLLEN; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS; AMBROSIA; ASTHMA; CITIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HUNGARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLLEN; SEASONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

FEJER; HUNGARY; SZEGED;

AMBROSIA;

EID: 84862749960     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2012.05.088     Document Type: Article

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